Many PCTRI readers and followers are aware of the recent emergence of the Sustainable Trails Coalition. While PCTRI remains focused on lifting the blanket bicycle closure on the non-Wilderness portions of the PCT, we recognize that the Sustainable Trails Coalition’s (STC) efforts to modify and improve management practices on most National Scenic Trails (including the

Several months ago, the US Forest Service drafted and quietly released a proposal that would entrench the 1988 bicycle ban on the PCT. Although USFS apparently wished to avoid significant public scrutiny, PCTRI has gone to great lengths to dissect the proposal and to rebut the highly irregular and draconian elements of the plan. A

As we continue our efforts, more research is necessary and this includes input from our primary user group(s) . . . YOU! We’ve drafted 5 additional surveys for sections all throughout California. Several surround the Big Bear Lake area, which is truly beautiful country (it all is, really!) just a short drive from the Greater

In an astounding rebuff to PCTRI’s and other mountain bikers’ four-year effort to restore multiuse to the non-Wilderness portions of the Pacific Crest Trail, the Forest Service has suddenly proposed to ratify the 1988 PCT bicycle ban for the Inyo, Sequoia, and Sierra National Forests and give the Forest Service and the Pacific Crest Trail

The USFS has initiated a revision process in the Inyo, Sequoia, and Sierra National Forests in the Pacific Southwest Region. We think our readership should be more specifically informed about the appalling language (emphasized in bold italics below) in Forest Service Plan #3375, for which objecting comments are requested by September 29: “Pacific Crest National

First and foremost, WELCOME! We’re glad you’re here! Here at the PCTRI, we’ve noticed that a link to our surveys appears in your forum for May 19, 2014. A number of you have since answered our surveys and raised questions or made comments. We appreciate your feedback and are really surprised to hear just how

WELCOME TO THE PCTRI SURVEY OF THE POTENTIAL FOR BICYCLE USE ON PARTS OF THE PCT As you know, the primary aim of our effort is to persuade the federal government to reassess, and rescind, its 1988 bicycle ban on the non-Wilderness parts of the Pacific Crest Trail that it administers. (About 60% of the

As expected, we have received a letter from the USFS, which can be effectively summed up in two letters: “NO” Although not what we were hoping for, none of us here at the PCTRI are even remotely surprised by this, as it has been the anticipated response since our initial meeting with them. Let us

A formal update to our loyal audience is long overdue, and for that we apologize. It was recently asked of us if PCTRI is dead, and we can certainly understand why it might have seemed the case. The truth of the matter? PCTRI is not at all dead. Not even close. However . . .

On Wednesday, June 12th, 2013 the United States Forest Service made a major announcement in favor of mountain biking on the Continental Divide Trail (CDNST), which is a National Scenic Trail subject to the same administrative and legal oversight as the PCT. Revising a previous decision, the USFS in Colorado has reversed course about mountain